Carol Vorderman on cooking and kids

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‘I don’t really cook for myself,’ says the ‘cougar’ poster girl on the eve of her new food show with Simon Cowell

The thing about Carol Vorderman is that she doesn’t polarise opinion.
Generally speaking, men fancy her, women admire her and most people think
she’s A Good Thing. This is unusual: other female TV presenters of roughly
her age are either needy (Anthea Turner), mildly irritating (Davina McCall)
or have simply disappeared (Gaby Roslin). But at 52, Vorderman, who started
out as a geeky maths nerd on Countdown, has been on TV almost
constantly for more than 30 years. In a notoriously ageist industry, what
has she got that others haven’t?